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We recently read a great article in the WSJ Weekend Edition called THE POWER TRIP. Jonah Lehrer wrote this and reflects quite accurately what happens to many leaders as they assume high-level positions. Bill Caskey and Terry Sarbinoff addressed this in their recent Modern Leader Podcast.
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“To Understand Follower-Ship, Leaders Need to Grasp The Survival Benefits of Social Coordination” I recently read an article, An Evolutionary View-What Followers Want from Their Leaders, that explains the three characteristics dating back to the ancient tribes that every follower needs from their leader. Roughly two million years ago, the hunter-gather living style did not have formal leadership [...]
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(The following article is from the magazine Going Bonkers–”Are You Listening To Me”) “It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever-the one who recognizes his/her challenges and does something about it.” -Vince Lombardi The Four Sins: 1. Interrupting. “I really am not interested in paying attention to what you [...]
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This is a series written to help leaders understand what derails them and their management team. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting the entire list of eleven derailers from the Hogan Assessment. Derailer #1: Excitable John was a VP of Sales for a large manufacturing company in Chicago. He had been with the [...]
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Was talking last week to a good friend, who leads the Leadership Initiative at a large, really large pharma company. What does she find the #1 problem with graduates from MBA school? Great at business skills. Lousy at behavioral skills. What does that mean? It means that our Business Schools are doing a great job [...]
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I was in a meeting the other day and brought up the term “behavior problem.” The HR director shook her head and said, “Boy, do we have those.” I asked her to explain. She spent the next 20 minutes talking about a different kind of behavior problem than what I was referring to. She talked [...]
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